iBeacon. They know what shelf you're standing in front of. What products you touch and read.

Ever been in an Apple store? Look up. In the dark voids between the edge-to-edge backlit ceiling. There are secrets there. Watching you.

Not what iBeacon does but an entertainingly dramatic description nonetheless.

The only step missing from their description is having the app- or company- specific app installed. For Apple, that is the Apple Store app which everyone has. If you have BT enabled, it can detect the iBeacon and Apple Store can send that back for tracking.

Wrong.

"products visitors pick up" [1]

[1] https://itechcraft.com/blog/ibeacon-for-retail-store/

Macys pioneered it before there even were Apple Stores. Back when most people didn't even know their phones had Bluetooth.

Macy's has Santa clause since 1947 because that is when Miracle on 24th Street came out. And he even knows when you are sleeping.

Why is it still called Xcode, if they abandoned the name OS X?

don't go creating problems where we don't need solutions.

IP over Avian Carriers

I love the fact that this is a thing.

Let me guess, you want a site that is just a singular column of text, plenty of space for ad breaks, and 3/4 of your monitor is just whitespace on the left and right?

I read the article on mobile and I thought it was great. Then I looked at it on my desktop (in Chrome) and found it much harder to read. There are even images literally blocking off whole portions of certain paragraphs. It's not good.

I just re-read the entire thing. It is good. You're misrepresenting or you need to check your browser settings.

No image blocks any paragraph, which even if it had, would be far more forgivable than modern web design. Do you consider any of Apple's modern product pages -- which "block off whole portions of" the page itself by scrolljacking and Clockwork-Oranging you to force you to watch their hypnotic marketing animations -- bad?

here are images as proof:

https://i.imgur.com/5UI6E5w.png

https://i.imgur.com/C9qlsIu.png

screenshots aren't 'proof.' and haven't been for a long time, neither was i ever looking for 'proof'. wow, the amount of webdev butthurt at someone's website who criticized webdevs is astounding.

They are proof of MY experience.

Accusing me of “webdev butthurt” is pretty funny. considering that:

A. I’m not a web dev.

B. I have already said multiple times I agree with the actual message of the article! (I just couldn’t read parts of it on desktop)

Why are you trying to gaslight me? I know what I’m seeing. In my browser (Chrome with default settings), there are certain paragraphs where the first word of every line is partially obscured. There are others where the last word of every line is obscured. It is unreadable.

ps. default chrome is no longer a valid user agent, by pure definition.

I'm not gaslighting you. Are you just willy nilly accusing me of lying that nothing was covered up in MYYYYY browser? What about Lynx? hmm? What a garbage community member you are.

I never said things were covered up for YOU, I said they were covered up for ME. Then you implied I was lying, and now that I provided proof your new argument is “Chrome isn’t a valid user agent”. Sure bud.

You're bad at guessing.

Joke lost in translation. He's implying those who engage in these types of nonsense release notes often add bugs instead of fixing them.

I read every single one. Any app that does this gets uninstalled and a nasty letter to software managers.

Well you're no fun, Sir...

While I'm morally tempted to do the same, many of the apps guilty of this are the major ones one uses, and as time goes by, I somehow find myself with less and less time on my hands, so I have to be selective with the things I want to do right and proper. Thus, by means of inaction, I indirectly contribute to the circle of enshittification, and there is no stopping it.

Don't underestimate the effort a software developer will put forth to create mountains of complicated automation and scripts if it allows them to be lazy. And they see no issue with this. So why would they see an issue being accountable for yet another agile cycle.

Rev number go up!

This should be illegal if auto-updates are enabled or eventual updates are forced. Not joking.

Nowhere else in society do we allow such self-serving laziness and unethical negligence (looking at you, purposely destroying backwards compatibility of APIs) at a professional level. Most other professions have steep legal consequences if they hide their actions or inactions.